On 2007/12/19 09:04 (GMT-0500) Todd Denniston apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote, On 12/18/2007 10:11 PM: >> On 2007/12/18 18:27 (GMT-0800) Tod Merley apparently typed: >>> On Dec 18, 2007 12:53 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I learned long ago that setting the BIOS to use anything other than AUTO was >> more likely to do more harm than good, so I NEVER do it any more. >> http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/partitioningindex.html#BIOSHDREC > except sometimes you actually need to configure programs (like bios) do do > things in an expected way. Apparently Anaconda needs some option that either doesn't exist or I didn't find. > The problem you described reminded me of a problem one of the guys had while > attempting to install F8T3, IIRC it was solved by either forcing AHCI on or > off in bios, I don't remember which and he is not here right now. I'm pretty sure the i815 target system predates AHCI by several years. > however reading > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anacdump-gx150-f8-live1.txt > I noticed fairly early on... > "Local variables in innermost frame: > ... > deviceFile: /dev/sda > str: The drive /dev/sda has more than 15 partitions on it. The SCSI subsystem > in the Linux kernel does not allow for more than 15 partitions at this time. > You will not be able to make changes to the partitioning of this disk or use > any partitions beyond /dev/sda15 in Fedora > ... > " > So I am assuming your F7 install only used partitions numbered less than 15?? Libata wouldn't let me use them all, so it has no access to the FC6, pub, srv, usr/local & a few other partitions unless and until I figure out how to get dm to work, or some future Fedora version's Anaconda does it for me. > It looks like the Anaconda in F8 is less forgiving (capable of dealing with > errors) about too many partitions I've not noticed anything in the logs to indicate it, but it's a high suspect. > or you asked it to install to a partition > numbered > 15? Those >15 are never presented for selection. Yum upgrade of a F7 partition clone worked, so it's not a base system problem. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
